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Hallel Yom Yerushalayim: Paragraph Eight
We picture ourselves standing in the redeemed Jerusalem, filled with joy and gratitude, shock...
Hallel Yom Yerushalayim: Paragraph Seven
How will the nations of the world, so filled with hatred now, sing when they witness the comp...
Hallel: Yom Yerushalayim: Paragraph Six
What will it be like to stand in the Infinite city with the means to express infinite gratitu...
Hallel: Yom Yerushalayim: Paragraph Five
What will those standing in redeemed Jerusalem sing? They will sing as Jerusalem will sing, w...
Hallel: Yom Yerushalayim: Paragraph Four
What do those who perceive God’s Presence in everything, the Yirei Hashem, perceive in the re...
Hallel: Yom Yerushalayim: Paragraph Three
In this paragraph we sing of, Jerusalem redeemed that will be a city of those who trust in Go...
Hallel Yom Yerushalayim: Paragraph Two
Jerusalem rebuilt will be greater than any miracles we witnessed, even in Egypt and at the Sp...
Hallel: Yom Yerushalayim: Paragraph One
We must understand what Jerusalem represents, and to what we aspire in the completely restore...
| Shir ha-Shirim XI: Part Two: Learning to Sing the Torah: Sefirah 1 |
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 We have learned: Rabbi Akiva said: “Far be it from anyone in Israel to dispute that the Song of Songs renders the hands unclean (the Rabbis ruled that scrolls of the Bible should render the hands unclean, so as to prevent them
being handled disrespectfully. With respect to the Song of Songs, however, some hold that there was a dispute), for the whole world only existed, so to speak, for the day on which the Song of Songs was given to it. Why so? Because all of the Writings are Holy, and this is Holy of Holies. (Shir Hashirim Rabbah 1.1:11, part two)
On the second night of Pesach we begin to count the Omer, the 49 steps that take us from Pesach to Shavuot, the day of the Revelation at Sinai. Rabbi Akiva is reminding us that God refers to the Torah itself as a Song, and just as the world exists only in the merit of Torah, so too, the world exists only in the merit of those being able to sing the Song of Torah, the Song of Songs with the same joy they Torah was sung by God to Israel at Sinai.
On this, the first night of the counting of the Omer, we commit ourselves to strive over the next 49 days to join in the Song of Torah, the Song of Songs.  |
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